On September 3rd 2003
I was softly touched by a warm summer breeze
There were blue tits flocking and swerving
My accuracy is quite unnerving

I stole into a burnt, orange field
Which once was green, but lost its zeal
To prance and dance and sing around
Which is not condoned in the centre of town

Children please beware!
I'm choked with fear
Oh children please beware!
I'm choked with fear
(repeat)

And as I crunched those crispy leaves
I walked towards a shaded tree
To find a young girl lying there
Drifting off without a care

Her face was covered by a straw hat
'Happy as Larry' and all of that
When I shouted out to wake her up
She was skipping school in the burning hot

Children please beware!
I'm choked with fear
Oh children please beware!
I'm choked with fear
(repeat)

And as I tried to get her to speak
I realised that she was not asleep
I moved her hat to find that her face was grey
Her knickers wrapped around her ankles
It's not funny!

Children please beware!
I'm choked with fear
Oh children please beware!
I'm choked with fear
(repeat)

Swamped with fear...
Drown in fear...




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Happy as Annie Lyrics as written by Cathal Kerrigan Alfie Ambrose

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    Yep got it on the head there, the picture I paint of it is that Edd is being a happy loner on a sunny day, about to prace and dance in the hay, when he sees a girl and shouts her but she does stay. Its such a happy song which sets the start mood but everything gos so wrong!

    choked with fear swamped with fear drown in fear

    Makes Edd's life seem quite fairlytale, just like his other songs such as On Sussex Downs, then things get quite odd and dark when we hear Edwould.

    simplexon June 08, 2006   Link

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